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vertex finely and closely longitudinally striated from the 

 hinder ocelli, behind which it is smoother and shining ; 

 the occiput thickly covered with long pale golden hairs. 

 The mandibles are piceous before the middle ; the joints 

 Of the palpi are white at the base. Thorax bearing 

 pubescence of moderate length ; fulvous above ; that 

 on the pleurae paler ; finely punctured ; a longitudinal 

 furrow on either side of the mesonotum, a very indistinct 

 one down the middle of the scutellum, which at the apex 

 is fringed with long fulvous hairs. The middle of the 

 median segment bearing a large somewhat triangular 

 opaque shagreened space not uniting with the apex ; 

 the sides shining and smoother, and bearing long fulvous 

 hairs ; the apex being similarly clothed. The pleurae 

 shagreened, somewhat shining ; the apex of the pro- 

 and of the meta-pleurae thickly covered with long pale 

 fulvous hairs ; the sternum sparsely covered with long 

 pale fulvous hairs. Legs black ; the hairs pale fulvous. 

 Abdomen with the basal two segments ferruginous above 

 and beneath ; shining, impunctate, almost glabrous ; the 

 other segments black, their apices fringed with pale 

 fulvous hairs ; the hypopygium aciculated, the sides 

 sharply bordered ; the centre with an elongated raised 

 space, sharply pointed towards the apex ; the ventral 

 segments covered, but not very thickly, with long fulvous 

 hairs, which are longest towards the apex. Wings with 

 a^faint fuscous tinge ; the nervures black. 



Andrena communis Sm. ("North India, Masuri ; taken 

 at an elevation of 7,000 ft."), resembles this species in 

 coloration ; but it has the antennae fuscous beneath ; the 

 apical margin only of the first abdominal segment is 

 ferruginous, which colour also extends to the third. 

 Both, as also the following species, resemble the Euro- 

 pean Andrena cetii. Smith points out this resemblance in 

 regard to his A. communis (Descr. New Sp. Hym. p. 51). 



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